A game attempt to make a 1946 movie 32 years on. If only the pace weren't so slow, it might have come close to success. The colour photography mightn't be as lush as it was in the MGM days, but every possible ingredient to make the picture cute and lovable is thrown into the pot. The doggy star is immaculately trained, and, while the children are crying buckets over Lassie coming home after another incredible journey, for us adults there's always James Stewart, acting his heart out (and ridiculously losing star billing to Mickey Rooney) as if he thought he were in some other, better film. Mike Mazurki and Alice Faye are around to add to the nostalgia quotient, but it's Stewart's film: he even out-acts the dog and that's saying something.


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